Thursday, April 1 / 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM   •   Beacon D

Session 60:
Comparative Analyses of International Migration

Chair: Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University
Discussant: Elizabeth Fussell, Tulane University

  1. Determinants and Consequences of Irregular Migration in a Society under Transition. The Case of Georgia, CaucasusIrina Badurashvili, Georgian Centre of Population Research

  2. Labor Migration to Lebanon from the States of Punjab and Tamil Nadu, India: Similarities and Contrasts in Factors Affecting Migration and Remittance DecisionsSeema Gaur, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ; Prem C. Saxena, American University of Beirut

  3. Generations and Motivations: Russian and Other Ex-Soviet Immigrants in Costa RicaLeila Rodriguez, Pennsylvania State University ; Jeffrey H. Cohen, Pennsylvania State University

  4. Out of Africa: What Drives the Pressure to Emigrate?Hendrik P. van Dalen, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; George Groenewold, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Jeannette Schoorl, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

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